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The problem with this system for me is, facebook is suggesting people who I have previously removed from my friends list, so by clicking on the X I remove them
by foobar2k 18y ago
The problem with this system for me is, facebook is suggesting people who I have previously removed from my friends list, so by clicking on the X I remove them from the suggestion list, but facebook may imply this means their recommendation was not accurate.
It seems there are many different groups of users on facebook, some people "collect" friends and others add only current, relevant friends.
- nertzy 18y agoI'd be surprised if they use the X for anything other than simple hiding. This was a feature I was pretty interested in about two years ago. I spent some time trying to use the pre-Application-Platform API to build it out myself, but there were too many limitations on the FQL querying API. At the (relatively small) Facebook developer party at SXSW in 2007 I talked with one of the Facebook employees about wanting this feature, and he said they had it working internally, but that they faced similar problems with the user experience; for instance, they would get all of the people they know well but hate. I imagine that they held back from releasing it until they came up with the "X" dismissal feature so that users wouldn't have to be continually annoyed by their enemies.